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Call for Nominations: Lakatos Award 2021, Deadline: 1 Sep 2020

LAKATOS AWARD 2021

Nominations are invited for the 2021 Lakatos Award, with a strict deadline 
of Tuesday 1 September 2020. The 2021 award will be for a monograph in the 
philosophy of science broadly construed, either single authored or 
co-authored, published in English with an imprint from 2015 to 2020, 
inclusive. Anthologies and edited collections are not eligible. Any person 
of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or an allied field 
may nominate a book. Nominations must include a statement explaining the 
nominator?s reasons for regarding the book prizeworthy. Self-nominations 
are not allowed.

Please address nominations, or any requests for further information, to 
the Award Administrator, Tom Hinrichsen, at t.a.hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk 
<mailto:t.a.hinrichsen@lse.ac.uk>.

The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the 
Latsis Foundation, in memory of the former LSE professor Imre Lakatos. It 
is administered by an international Management Committee, which is 
organised from the LSE but entirely independent of LSE?s Department of 
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. The Committee decides the outcome 
of the Award competition on the basis of advice from an anonymous panel of 
selectors who produce detailed reports on the shortlisted books. Imre 
Lakatos, who died in 1974 aged 51, had been Professor of Logic with 
special reference to the Philosophy of Mathematics at the LSE since 1969. 
He joined the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in 
1960. Born in Hungary in 1922, he graduated (in Physics, Mathematics and 
Philosophy) from Debrecen University in 1944. He then joined the 
underground resistance. (His mother and grandmother perished in 
Auschwitz.) After the War, he was active in the Communist Party and had an 
influential position in the Ministry of Education. In 1950 he was arrested 
and spent the next three years as a political prisoner. After his release, 
he was given refuge in the Hungarian Academy of Science where he 
translated western works in science and mathematics into Hungarian. After 
the suppression of the Hungarian uprising he escaped to Vienna and from 
there, with the aid of a Rockefeller fellowship, on to Cambridge, England. 
He there wrote his (second) doctoral thesis out of which grew his famous 
Proofs and Refutations (CUP, 1976, edited by John Worrall and Elie Zahar). 
Two volumes of Philosophical Papers, edited by John Worrall and Gregory 
Currie, appeared in 1978, also from CUP.

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